Hey, yellow group, welcome to the fishing. Fishing with Eric, it's going to be great. We're going to have a great time here. So today I gave all your coaches a fishing pole. So coach, if you could just hand your fishing pole over to your athlete, get them familiar with how tall the pole is. The pole is usually about five feet in height. OK, and there's a few components to the whole. There's a handle. This is where you grip the pole and there's a reel. So the reel has a little crank with it. This is where you reel in the fish, when it's time to, once you catch a fish. So at the end of the reel, there's a little line. So if it coaches, if you can show your athlete the line, so this line is specifically designed for fishing to hold like a lot of weight because sometimes fishes can be pretty heavy and the weight of you pulling back can also be a lot as well. And at the end of that line, there is a little hook. So the hook, coaches be careful when showing your athlete the hook, because the hook can be all a bit sharp. At the end of the hook, there is a worm. So if you have, you want to have your athletes feel the worm it's a little gooey. Now, halfway through that line near the hook is a bobber. So this bobber helps indicate if there's a fish on the other line. The idea behind the bobber is that once a fish is pulling down your worm, eating that worm is on the hook. The bobber will go under the water. That's how you know you have a fish. So you have a few different type of variations of bobbers. Andew and Cameron, there in the middle, you guys have a a sound bobber and a glow in the dark bobber as well. You also have a light one that can be seen in the dark and the sound, one that just makes a noise so you know where it is and where it's casting from. If a bunch of different equipment, we have fake worms. If you want to pass these around, they're just they're just they're just fake worms. If you want to have your athlete also feel the fake worm. You just you just pull one out, actually, and just. Here you go Cameron, you want to have your athlete feel the fake worm? Nice. And we also have real worms, too. Anyone want to feel a real worm? You want to put your hand there, Andrew? Nope. Abby, do you want to put your hand on the real worm? No thanks, okay, it's all right. It's all right. Now when we use the worms, we usually use half a worm. So when you put your worm on the hook, you can rip it in half. Other equipment that we use, we have a glove for when we catch a fish and we're trying to take the fish off the hook. Fishes have scales, right, and these scales can cut you and cut your hand. So sometimes it's nice to have a glove on so you don't get cut by the fish. And when we grab a fish right, we have a fish. We grab it with a cupped hand. So everyone pretend that you're grabbing a glass of water. Andrew, spread your fingers apart a little bit more. A little closer together now actually. Thumb in line with your fingers. Yes, just like that. OK, so the back of the fish where the back of the gills are that is where the palm of your hand is going to be, OK. Abby, I'm going to take this pole away from you. Can I see your cupped hand for a second. So this is the fish, you're going to have it, now squeeze nice and hard. Yes. Don't, no not too. hard, you/re going to injure the fish. But see how it's all the way against the palm of your hand? That's where you want to be. See the back to the gills and you see the front of the fish here, back here, OK? See how it's all against your palm. Perfect grab. You can let go now. Anaconda lets you try, Okay, this let's see that cup, let's see the cup and put the fish in the back of this part of the back of the fish should be in the palm of your hand. So put a little deeper. Nice. Great. So your hand should be pretty much midway through the fish so you can try to grab that hook. Coaches. If your athlete does catch a fish, you might want to take their pull for them and have them grab the fish because you're going to need two hands when grabbing the fish,. Athletes , if you think you can give it a try all by yourself. You might want to put the pole in between your legs and then you can have two hands to grab the fish and grab the hook. So athletes, when casting or near the water, we should always wear a life vest. Now you're like, hey, but we're on land, we don't, we may not need a life vest. But what happens if you accidentally fall in and hit your head? We want you to be floating so we can rescue you. You know, we don't want to hit your head and sink all the way to the bottom. Want to wear a life vest. So just in case something was to happen, we can save you. All right. So life vests on your reel is in one hand. You have a worm on your hook. You're all ready to go. Now the next step you're going to coach. If you want to hand your pole back to your athlete. Pole is going to be in your left hand. So grab the grip with your left hand. Pull with your left hand. You can even let go of the line. Pole in your left hand, now you're with your right hand, you're going to grab find that line, find that one right after the the reel. So don't grab the pole. Just grab the line, nice. With your thumb on your on your left hand, you're going to press that button. OK, so that button, press it right now and see what happens. See how it kind of like relaxes the line a little bit and made it like a lot less taut, made it nice and like loose, right? So that's how we cast. We're going to, you're going to have your left hand fishing pole, right arm fishing line, you're going to press that button and everyone's going to say, cast or casting. So everyone around you knows to be safe to watch out for that hook. So you're gonna press that, but you're going to say casting, you're going to, throw that line out there with that hook in the worm and you're going to wait. Fishing is a very slow game. Good luck catching a fish in five minutes. Maybe you are lucky. Maybe catch a fish in 30 seconds, but most of the time it takes, take some time to catch a fish. OK, OK, I think we are ready. So athletes and coaches grab a life vest. Let's go fishing, everyone. Here we go! After you give instruction to your class and have them start the efficient process, sometimes you might notice athletes are students might need a little bit more extra instruction. Abby here, has never fished fish before. I'm going to give her some tactile modeling and some whole part whole with her coach. So Abby, I'm going to guide you over there, OK, and guide you over to your coach Neff and you feel this concrete right here. We are close to the water. OK, so take a step to your right, take a step to your right, and I would like for you to put your right left hand where Neff's left hand is and your right hand, where Neff's right hand is OK. So now I'm going to have you draw back like you're casting. OK, Abby, try to sense where that pole is, how it's like right off his hip. And then Neff right now, is going to loosen the line. So right now it's it's important to verbally talk with your athlete or your student and tell them what's going on, while you're using tactical modeling? So right now, Abby is grabbing this right hand and left hand, and Neff is going to do the casting motion. OK. Casting. So it's like a flick of the wrist in a way. Right. So in that case, emotion comes, it's a nice flick of the wrist or both wrists. And what you're doing now is you're slowly reeling that line in. You're trying to catch a fish right now on that hook with that worm, trying to bait them in and really, really fast is not going to do any good. So really a nice and slow. It's going to have the best opportunity to catch a fish. So now that Abby just went over the whole tactil modeling, with Neff. Now we're going to break it up into each individual part. The first part is finding a fishing pole. So we just found this fishing pole in the garage. Abby, I'm going to give you the pole. It's on the right side of your body. And we went over all the different parts of the fishing pole like the handle, the reel, the line, the hook and the bobber. Now it's time to get into the worm. So Abby, I'm going to let you pick any worm you want out of this box for all different colors. So we a nice work. OK, now you're going to grab your hook, so try to find that line that's all separated. Yeah. Now you found the bobber, so go all the way down. OK, keep going down. Keep going down. Yup. So the hook is OK, perfect. So now what your going to do is, with the worm you're going to try to weave it into the hook. OK, you're just going to stab the hook into the worm, OK? Awesome. OK, great. So now we have the worm on the hook. first part is complete, second part, hey, we had this life vest on. Now we're going to be safe to go on to the water. And now the third part is to cast, okay. So, I know we just did the whole tactile modeling with Neff and went over the whole cast all together. Now we're going to have you try to do it all by yourself. OK, so I'm going to guide you over to the water. I'm on your left side. Is my right arm. Got you over the water? Now we feel the concrete, right? OK, so we're going to hold the pole. And what hand are left hand? Awesome. The line is just a little bit tangled right now, so I'm going to untangle the line for you. Perfect. So I was just all wrapped around the pole. So now it's off, OK? So with a right hand, you're going to hold on to the fish wire right, just like that. Now your left thumb, you're going to press the mechanism to release it. Awesome. Bring that pole back to your right side and you're going to say what. Casting, now release. Nice. So once this cast, then you're going to watch slowly reel it in, OK, nice and slow. Try to wait, try to fill that fish. You can go a little bit faster than that. That's a good speed right there. So you're going to keep reeling in until you can't reel in anymore. Boom now ready to cast again. Awesome. Casting. Awesome, so now we finally finished the part of casting, and we're just waiting for a bite or a fish. OK, so we had this fake fish here that we got in a store and we have a fake hook and we're going tto use this to demonstrate or to show our athlete or student how to take the hook out of the fake fish. Now we've done this before in the past with real fishes, and you know, it takes a long time for them to, our there to learn how to take this hook out of the fish. And we want this process to be as fast as we can to not injure any fish at all. So we use this fake fish to provide some time to get used to where you actually grab the fish, how to grab the hook, what to do with the pole, because to take a fish off the hook is a two hand process. OK, so now you're, you're going to put your pole in between your legs, in between your legs. And with your left hand, I have this glove here. So Abby, I'll put this glove on your hand for you, this is for your left hand. So we're going to you're going to find the fishing wire, right? And you're going to try to find and fill out for the back of the fish. And I feel the back of the fish nice. So we start at the top of the fish and then we move down. And with your other free hand, the right hand, we try to find the hook. We try to figure out which direction the hook actually went into the fish. We feel both ends and entry wound and exit wound. And we try our best to grab the top of the hook and to pry it out just like that. Nice job. So once we had the fish in our hand, you got to quickly bring it over the water. And we're not going to throw the fish in the water, are we? And we're not trying to hurt anything here. We're going to lightly get as close to the water as we can and lightly drop it back into the water. And once you do that, you might have to get another worm, might have to cast it out again. Get another fish, do the same process over and over again. And that's fishing. Now let's catch some real fish Right Abby? Sounds like a lot of fun. Awesome. I'll take this fake poll was a real poll fake hook away from you. Put the glove down on the fake fish. I got a worm already on this hook for you and the real fishing pole. And now we can get to casting. OK. Awesome. Awesome. I'm going to guid you over to the edge of the water, feel the concrete? You're about two feet away from the water, cast away. Casting. My name is Abby, and I have been a camper at capabilities for six years. one of my favorite part of capabilities is being able to experience sports that I never would have been able to try out before in school. And you know, the things you learn here, you can take back to your school and show them how they can modify different sports. So I'm really excited to be here today revisiting former campers, and I hope that more kids my age will be able to try out these sorts of camps as well.